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🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.
21K starsJun 12, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add valeriansaliou/sonicAlternatives
Para alternatives for AI agents.
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Multitenant backend server for building web and mobile apps rapidly. The backend for busy developers. (self-hosted or hosted)
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#2
Easy to use open source fast database for search | Good alternative to Elasticsearch | Drop-in replacement for E in the ELK stack
12K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Search
$ npx skills add manticoresoftware/manticoresearch#3
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
77K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add elastic/elasticsearch#4
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add opensearch-project/OpenSearch#5
SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.
32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add searxng/searxng#6
Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust
15K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add quickwit-oss/tantivy#7
Cloud-native search engine for observability. An open-source alternative to Datadog, Elasticsearch, Loki, and Tempo.
11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add quickwit-oss/quickwit#8
Privacy-respecting metasearch engine
14K starsMay 14, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add searx/searx#9
Scira (Formerly MiniPerplx) is a minimalistic AI-powered search engine that helps you find information on the internet and cites it too. Powered by Vercel AI SDK!
12K starsMar 20, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptSearch
$ npx skills add zaidmukaddam/scira#10
Next-generation full-text search library for Browser and Node.js
14K starsMay 29, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaScriptSearch
$ npx skills add nextapps-de/flexsearch#11
A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine
12K starsMay 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add benbusby/whoogle-search#12
A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.
59K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSemantic Search
$ npx skills add meilisearch/meilisearch#13
Developer-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less.
11K starsJun 15, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeHTMLSemantic Search
$ npx skills add lancedb/lancedb#14
SeaTunnel is a multimodal, high-performance, distributed, massive data integration tool.
9.4K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaEmbeddings
$ npx skills add apache/seatunnel#15
A Simple and Universal Swarm Intelligence Engine, Predicting Anything. 简洁通用的群体智能引擎，预测万物
67K starsMay 24, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add 666ghj/MiroFish#16
Stop renting your intelligence. Own it with AnythingLLM. Everything you need for a powerful local-first agent experience
63K starsJul 13, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaScriptVector Search
$ npx skills add Mintplex-Labs/anything-llmHow to choose
When should you switch?
Use an alternative when it has a clearer install path, higher trust score, fresher maintenance, or better platform fit for your current agent stack. Keep Para if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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